A guide from the studio · free
What to ask before you commission a ring, and where it usually goes wrong
Most people commission a piece of jewellery once in their life, perhaps twice. Nobody explains how it works first: which decisions are yours, in what order they arrive, and what each one costs you in money and in time.
This guide is the other half of our process page. That one tells you what a studio does. This tells you what you do. It was written to be useful whoever you end up commissioning from, including a studio that is not ours.
- 10 pages
- Written by the maker
- Free, no obligation
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What is inside
- What to bring to the first conversation, and why the images of things you DISLIKE are the more useful half.
- Which decisions are genuinely yours, in the order they actually arrive, so none of them arrives as a surprise.
- What each choice costs you in money and in time, before anyone quotes you anything.
- How to judge a design before the piece exists, so you are not seeing it for the first time when it is finished.
- Where commissions usually go wrong, and the questions that catch it early.
The Maison List
Join and I will send you Before You Commission, a practical guide to having a piece made: what to bring to a first conversation, which decisions are yours, and the questions worth asking any jeweller. Then first viewings of new work, and occasional notes from the studio.
By subscribing you consent to receive occasional letters from Silux London. Unsubscribe at any time. See our privacy policy.
Written by Hamed Arab, designer at Silux London, in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. No cost, and no obligation to commission anything.
When you would rather ask the questions than read them: book a free design session. No cost, no obligation, and no clock running.
Choosing an engagement ring rather than commissioning a piece? Before You Propose is the guide for that. Or look at the work first: the collections, how a commission works.